Antonio Machado Quotes

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• Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

  Antonio Machado

  Travel, Time, Journey

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• Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

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  Dream, Important, Wake Up

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.151, Wesleyan University Press

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• My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

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  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• The deepest words
  of the wise man teach us
  the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
  or the sound of the water when it is flowing.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Blow

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.69, Wesleyan University Press

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• I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

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  Fire, Ashes, Fingers

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.151, Wesleyan University Press

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• I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.

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  Jesus, Heaven, Passing Away

  Antonio Machado, Robert Bly (1983). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.109, Wesleyan University Press

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• Traveler, there is no path, the path must be
  forged as you walk.

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  Path, Traveler, Walks

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• What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

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  Garden, Soul, Done

  Antonio Machado, “The Wind, One BrILLIant Day”

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• Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

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  Thinking, Fool, Values

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• Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

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  Patience, Running, Trying

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Selected poems”, Harvard Univ Pr

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• I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

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  Success, Sweet, Heart

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press

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• Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

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• All our efforts must tend towards light.

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  Light, Effort

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• Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

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  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• What the poet is searching for
  is not the fundamental I
  but the deep you.

  Antonio Machado

  Fundamentals, Poet

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.149, Wesleyan University Press

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• Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.

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  Men, Judging, Advice

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)

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  Hay, Als, Path

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• All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand

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  Long, Decision, Wish

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• The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

  Antonio Machado

  Flower, Garden, Wind

  Antonio Machado, “The Wind, One BrILLIant Day”

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• XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path And turning, you look back At a way you will never tread again Traveller, there is no road Only wakes in the sea.

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  Sea, Track, Looks

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• The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

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  Erotic, Traffic, Sensibility

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

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  Philosophical, Denial, Deny

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

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  Vices, Add, Littles

  Antonio Machado, Antonio Fernández Ferrer “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence

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  Running, Dream, Heart

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

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  Dream, Thirds

  Antonio Machado, Robert Bly (1983). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.143, Wesleyan University Press

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